TOPICAL BIBLE
Amusements And Worldly Pleasures
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Exodus 32:4and he receiveth from their hand, and doth fashion it with a graving tool, and doth make it a molten calf, and they say, ‘These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.’Exodus 32:6and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.Exodus 32:19And it cometh to pass, when he hath drawn near unto the camp, that he seeth the calf, and the dancing, and the anger of Moses burneth, and he casteth out of his hands the tables, and breaketh them under the mount;Judges 16:23and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, ‘Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.’Judges 16:24And the people see him, and praise their god, for they said, ‘Our god hath given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded.’Judges 16:25And it cometh to pass, when their heart is glad, that they say, ‘Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;’ and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.Job 1:5and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, ‘Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.’ Thus doth Job all the days.Job 21:12They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.Job 21:13They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.Job 21:14And they say to God, ‘Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.Job 21:15What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?’Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.Proverbs 21:17Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 7:2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.Ecclesiastes 7:3Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.Ecclesiastes 7:4The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.Isaiah 5:11Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!Isaiah 5:12And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.Isaiah 47:8And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, ‘I am, and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.’Amos 6:1Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.Amos 6:2Pass ye over to Calneh and see, And go thence to Hamath the great, And go down to Gath of the Philistines, Are they better than these kingdoms? Greater is their border than your border?Amos 6:3Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,Amos 6:4Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,Amos 6:5Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;Amos 6:6Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.Matthew 14:6But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,Matthew 14:7whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.Matthew 14:8And she having been instigated by her mother—‘Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;Luke 8:14‘And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.1 Corinthians 10:7Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;’Galatians 5:19And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Galatians 5:21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.Ephesians 4:17This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,Ephesians 4:19who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;1 Timothy 5:6and she who is given to luxury, living—hath died;2 Timothy 3:4traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,Titus 3:3for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another;Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,James 5:1Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;James 5:5ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;1 Peter 4:3for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,1 Peter 4:4in which they think it strange—your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,2 Peter 2:13about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,
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